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I guess we should just support the post office with donations while we’re at it. That’ll work well!

I suspect the post office is still supported by a durable majority. If it isn’t, then it will probably lose government funding as well.

A durable majority doesn't even support funding education, and it is losing federal funding as we speak. Do you think this is a good thing?

I don't think this is correct. The majority of people prefers states to have more influence on school curriculum and federal government to have less. Yes, there are downsides to that, but it generally means that hours on STEM will increase and hours on ideology will decrease.

Removing federal influence in setting agenda while sending federal funding directly to states without federal oversight of programs would not be a bad thing. My 2c.

Banning books and forcing bibles in schools. Right.

No, teaching what the local parents believe is best for their own kids. While there are certainly a few of those who will want bibles, most in my experience put much higher value in the extra STEM unhindered by ideology.

My kids high school recently cancelled advanced math classes because the racial composition of students there was not what the school hoped to see. No, thank you, I want parents to have a much bigger influence on what schools teach.

Which Federal policy was it that led to that class cancelation?

Some equal access policy that it was worried about. Do you have kids? If so, what age(s)?

Are you trying to distract from the fact that you can't actually give any specifics about any of this and sound like you are working from talking points by asking me about my children?

The right is ideologically opposed to education. The belief that they are doing so to.. ugh... "promote stem... unhindered by ideology" is, frankly, delusional.

>I suspect the post office is still supported by a durable majority. If it isn’t, then it will probably lose government funding as well.

To which funding are you referring?

In fact[0]:

"Unlike many government agencies, the United States Postal Service (USPS) does not receive direct taxpayer funding for operating expenses. Government appropriations are limited to specific purposes, such as the Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) Program."

And[1]:

"In 2006, Congress passed a law that imposed extraordinary costs on the U.S. Postal Service. The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) required the USPS to create a $72 billion fund to pay for the cost of its post-retirement health care costs, 75 years into the future. This burden applies to no other federal agency or private corporation."

[0] https://govfacts.org/federal/usps/how-usps-stays-afloat-fund...

[1] https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis...

Same with public schools, public parks, public sidewalks, public libraries, even police and fire departments. We have to give billionaires trillions in tax cuts while watching most Americans backslide into poverty so obviously it'd be fiscally irresponsible for the government to fund public services for the peasant class

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